Gregg Michel 🦋

Airplane taking off with the rising sun behind it and parked planes in the foreground

Early morning at JFK. #airport

The King children put it succinctly about the latest file release: their father was “relentlessly targeted by an invasive, predatory, and deeply disturbing disinformation and surveillance campaign.” Never forget that fact. 🗃️

Police Against the Movement A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century...

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Really look forward to this new book from @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social. Will be an important addition to the growing historiography on police and the movements of the ‘60s. 🗃️

Stage at amphitheater with large American flag hung in back and drawing above of Willie Nelson

Marking the 4th at Willie’s picnic and hoping for good news from Hunt about the missing kids. #texas

Tough couple days to lose both Sly Stone and Brian Wilson. Each changed the musical world with their innovations and brilliance.

I had great fun answering questions about surveillance and student activists in the 1960s at @askhistorians.bsky.social AMA. Thanks for inviting me, and check out my book, Spying on Students lsupress.org/978080718222..., to learn more about the topic. #skystorians.

Like many others today, wishing a happy birthday to the incomparable Bob Dylan. His music expresses our humanity, beautifully poignantly, and without compare.

‘A Priceless Inheritance’: Preserving Memories of Black Life in Memphis

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Wonderful story that highlights the rich history of Memphis. 🗃️

Tyre Nichols Verdict Stirs Anger, Grief And Prayerful Reflection - Institute for Public Service Reporting - Memphis %

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Otis Sanford puts it well: “The culture historically of Memphis police in some respects has been oppressive to African-American citizens. That’s just a fact.” 🗃️

Shocking and sad. May her memory be a blessing.

Congratulations! Look forward to reading. And great cover! 🗃️

Panel of speakers at the Nau Conference on Texas History with Dr. Catherine Clinton at the podium.

Yesterday’s Nau Conference on Texas History hosted by the @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social History Dept showcased exciting new work on the state’s rich & diverse history and the digital tools that are making it even more accessible. Shout out to the incomparable Catherine Clinton for organizing. 🗃️

Using Peer Networks to Integrate AI Literacy Into Liberal Arts How one college is using grassroots support to help professors experiment with AI.

Kudos to my @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social colleagues who are integrating AI into their pedagogy. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...

‘Runners cut down the nets, top FAU, 60-42, on Senior Day

Congratulations to the AAC champions. let’s keep rolling ! Birds Up🤙 #UTSA

The one and only David Johansen. RIP.

In Texas Measles Outbreak, Signs of a Riskier Future for Children Vaccine hesitancy has been rising for years in the United States. Doctors and parents in one rural county are confronting the consequences.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/h...

When Texas health officials talk like this you can understand the scope of the problem here: “I don’t want anybody to suffer from long-lasting disability because they got measles. But if you choose to live in Texas,” he added, “you can exercise that option.”

Trump yesterday, repeating something he’s been saying for years (re: tariffs, which he said would make the US “rich’): “it’s going to stop us from being a laughingstock all over the world because we have been taken advantage of like no country has been taken advantage of.” Let’s unpack this a bit./1

Punching down is particularly despicable

A great scholar and kind and gentle person.

My sentiments exactly

#skystorians I’m developing an upper-level course on the U.S. in the ‘60s and thinking of using Lakota Woman as one of the books. Anyone use it in similar course? Students respond well to it? Welcome any thoughts! 🗃️

Trump May Wish to Abolish the Past. We Historians Will Not. Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools.

"Intended to instill fear in teachers, this order itself ironically seems driven by fear, by a refusal to acknowledge the diversity of our nation and the wounds that cannot be healed until they are understood." 🗃️ newrepublic.com/article/1912...

Both Leucthenburg and Thernsrom passed this week. Two titans who did much to shape their fields. 🗃️

Federal workers are disproportionately Black. Ending DEI AND also eliminating the explicit prohibition against discrimination in hiring and in federal contracting is therefore about more than the culture wars. It, like the affirmative action ban, is about limiting opportunity for Black advancement.

Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m...
This is some strange shit.

Have kept it all. Will be among the last things I discard when the time comes.

@harryshearer.bsky.social “Celluloid Heroes” was an inspired and poignant choice for this week’s program. Thank you!

Birthday wishes to Michael Stipe!

a fashion illustration by Gordon Conway from 1929 featuring a woman going down the stairs wearing a green dress titled "Gown for Winter Festivities" meeting another women in a yellow coat.

Happy public domain day to all those who celebrate! We can now enjoyed all published works from 1929 and before, including the great fashion illustrations of Gordon Conway, especially this "gown for winter festivities." 🗃️

Wonderful and congrats! Will look forward to it.